Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: January 5
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Visual Effects Field Narrowed to 10
The Academy announced today that the Visual Effects race has been shortlisted further to ten potential nominees. Only the films on this list can get nominated. I don’t see any real surprises here, but I haven’t had a chance to thoroughly look at them. 10 Contenders Remain in VFX Oscar® Race
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Precursor: 16th Art Directors Guild Nominations (2011)
There are a handful of films I would have expected to see here, but didn’t: Albert Nobbs, A Dangerous Method, J. Edgar, Jane Eyre, My Week with Marilyn and War Horse among many others. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy getting a nomination is a fantastic surprise, but one that typically doesn’t transition to the Oscars (but…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 4
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 23rd Producers Guild of America Nominations (2011)
The big news here is that War Horse in spite of lukewarm reviews managed to stay in the race with Bridesmaids making the expected “populist” slot that seldom carries over to the Oscars. Films whose chances have diminished or disappeared entirely: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (vanished), Harry Potter (vanished) and Drive (diminished). The Ides…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 3
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 5
As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of December, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (this will be in place of my prior weekly article “Oscar Preview”. Today, we look back at the results of the New York…
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Precursor: 15th Online Film Critics Society Awards (2011)
The Online Film Critics Society, one of the largest film critics organizations in the world, have declared The Tree of Life not only Best Picture, but winner of four other awards (the most confusing of which is Best Editing, an award the film certainly shouldn’t have won considering how plodding it tends to be). While…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 2
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: January 1
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 31
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 52, 2011)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 (starting in January) years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 30
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 7th Austin Film Critics Association (2011)
When the most prizes you give out is to a film shot in your local area, some of your choices become a bit suspect. That is, if Take Shelter hadn’t already received a handful of prizes elsewhere. This list is fairly straightforward with only Attack the Block coming out of nowhere to earn prizes. It’s…
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Oscar Profile #66: Carole Lombard
Born Jane Alice Peters on October 6, 1908 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the young tomboy was discovered by director Allan Dwan at the age of 12 and cast as Monte Blue’s sister in 1921’s A Perfect Crime under her original name. She was Carol Lombard throughout the 1920s and Carole Lombard by 1930’s The Arizona…
